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The Joy Luck Club Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The token saved from the swan carries with it ________________________________.
(a) All the luck the woman did not have in China
(b) A fortune in memories
(c) A promise that she would learn English
(d) All the woman's good intentions

2. Lena's great grandfather probably died from _____________________.
(a) Influenza
(b) Being murdered
(c) Guilt and remorse
(d) Being drowned

3. The Mah Jong tiles are arranged into ___________________.
(a) Four walls
(b) Three stacks
(c) Four columns
(d) Three piles

4. The woman intends to learn in America how to __________________________________.
(a) Raise swans where they are free
(b) Raise her own food
(c) Speak perfect American English
(d) Open a business for Chinese

5. When in China, the women of the Joy Luck Club were not allowed __________________________.
(a) To drink more than one cup of tea
(b) Focus on winning
(c) To think a bad thought
(d) To leave before sixteen hours were up

Short Answer Questions

1. Waverly replaces the missing chess pieces with _____________________.

2. Rose's mother admitted to God that _______________________.

3. Suyuan Woo packed all of her belongings into a _________________.

4. Waverly was named after ____________________________.

5. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Waverly Place Jong is named after the street she lives on in San Francisco. Discuss other instances where children are named after localities, ideas or unusual things.

2. Why is Jing-Mei satisfied to hit the wrong notes on the piano?

3. Does the little girl fall from the bicycle because her mother is right, or because she is afraid her mother is right, or is it just a chance circumstance?

4. June Woo started the American Joy Luck Club because she sensed the grief in the other Chinese people she met here. How does the club help June Woo deal with her own tragic memories?

5. How could a woman with twin babies leave them at the side of the road?

6. Ying-Ying has remained a frightened child into her adulthood, and now her daughter is forced to live with Ying-Ying's fears. Why is Ying-Ying St. Clair so afraid?

7. Is Ying-Ying a neglected child?

8. Jing-Mei Woo's mother has great expectations of her daughter. Why is she like this?

9. Discuss why the current members of the Joy Luck Club have invested their winnings in the stock market.

10. Discuss Waverly's mother's response to Waverly's success. Why might a daughter of Lindo Jong be seen as special? Why would Lindo want to brag and grandstand her daughter?

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